Hello.
Yeah... You know how the social engineering part of this xz backhole was done? Somebody pressured the Maintainer, that he needs to add new features. Afterwards, the maintainers of distributions were pressured to update, because there were some "NEW FEATURES" available. Your post sounded eerie similar. As do some of the gitlog entries. Just my two cents... (I am sure that I have not yet earned the privilege to post it on this list, but I felt like I had to say something. Blame it on poor impulse control!) Thomas On 4/1/24 12:55, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
Folks, Despite of current security issue with xz/lzma the algortihm itself provides great compression, and the existing XZ Utils provide great compression in the .xz file format, but they produce just one big block of compressed data. Here, a new port which is called archivers/pixz which produces a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data possible. This is especially useful for large tarballs. This can be used as seprated application or via tar, that described on homepage: https://github.com/vasi/pixz -- wbr, Kirill
